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In 1913, exactly 100 years ago, several well-established thinkers agreed that the world had seen the last major war. There was simply nothing to be gained from a war at this point; all countries were so dependent on trading with each other, while at the same time not trusting each other enough...

...sounds ridiculous, right? But the idea here seems interesting, I think: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/15-year-old-lands-book-deal-for-memoir_b73043 As a look at how things have changed for those growing up now as opposed to in the 50s, it might actually be a worthwhile book...

Slowly getting to grips with the new format, but one question - how do I turn off the autocensor that decides for me which words I'm allowed to look at?

Cory Doctorow has Opinions. (We knew that already, right?) He has Opinions on issues such as copyright, lawyers, entrepreneurship, digitization not only of information but of life itself, the role of technology in transforming our view of the world, etc etc etc. And that's all well and good...

"Hi, my fellow atheists, my name is Alain and I'm a Philosopher." "Hi Alain. Sounds like a fun job." "You have no idea. And when I say 'my fellow atheists', I include you lot over there who may believe in something in general but don't live actively religious lives." "Really? Um... OK, hi."...

Alan Sepinwall: The Revolution Was Televised - The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever Alan Sepinwall started out as a TV critic back in the mid-90s, when most people still couldn't conceive that there was anything on TV you could write enough about to earn the...

The Dragon Lords, world's first 'cloud-sourced' novel, prepares to land | Books | guardian.co.uk Author writes book via Google Docs, with 13 000 readers commenting, editing and suggesting changes in real time. Clever marketing ploy or revolutionary new step in publishing?

:D The Bat Country Word, From an interview on Arpanet in 1976 with Jim Henson, Ayn Rand, Yoko Ono and (painter) Sidney Nolan. In which Jim compares Ayn unfavorably to Oscar the Grouch

You have to wonder what the good folks at Dalkey Archives are thinking. So they put out a job ad yesterday, looking for young go-getters who want to get into publishing. Sounds neat until you read the fine print. Common tasks to be performed include ...which will be a tricky highwire to walk...

I read this article: Is The Hobbit simply too long? | Film | guardian.co.uk A friend of mine has a theory, that the perfect movie length is indeed exactly 96 minutes, and that the quality of any movie can be determined sight unseen simply by looking at how far it is from that perfect...

Is there any way to disable these? When browsing on a phone they take up a pretty large portion of the screen...

Diego Marani (born 1959 in Ferrara) is an Italian novelist, translator, and newspaper columnist. In 1996, while working as a translator for the Council of the European Union, he invented Europanto, a mock international auxiliary language. New Finnish Grammar (2000, English and Swedish...

Is it just me, or has the "Currently reading" tag been removed from people's headers? Why? That was a good feature.

Paul Davies: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search For Alien Intelligence (2010) In 2010, the SETI - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - initiative celebrated its 50th anniversary. And so physicist/cosmologist/astrobiologist Paul Davies was asked to write something. Rather than just...

Yes, Britney Spears is about to embark on a career as an author: Britney Spears in talks to write novel | Music | guardian.co.uk Although, didn't she already write a novel years ago? A Mother's Gift: Britney Spears, Lynne Spears: 9780440237990: Amazon.com: Books

Angry Birds E-Reader App to Launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics I'll be there. I'll try to get a hold of one and see how it works.

So, Neil Young's autobiography is coming out in a few days (or maybe it's already out in the US, I'm not sure). Anyone but me really excited? Interview Excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq93UqN9vU

I don't get why it should be moved to the right of the screen, but apart from making the site look a little more cluttered I guess don't see any harm. However, it doesn't seem to actually display the most recent replies to threads? What's the point of it then? Could we have it back the way it...

Awesome: 'Fun Home' Musical Comes to the Public Theater - NYTimes.com

Holy crap. Literally. Polish exorcism boom leads to launch of ‘Egzorcysta’ magazine | The Raw Story Enlightenment really was just a phase, wasn't it?